Posted on 02/16/2007 4:48:03 PM PST by madprof98
EDINBURGH, Scotland, (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nurses and other health care professionals should avoid using the terms ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ to refer to family relationships since the terms could be offensive to homosexual couples with children, a new directive published by Scotland’s National Health Service recommends.
Issued in conjunction with the country’s leading homosexual activist organization Stonewall Scotland, the publication is entitled Fair For All - The Wider Challenge: Good LGBT Practice in the NHS. Americans for Truth reported Feb.11 on the publication’s release.
The booklet calls for a “zero-tolerance policy to discriminatory language” among Scotland’s health care system. Included in discriminatory language is the use of terms that assume a traditional family structure of mother, father and children, according to the NHS directive.
“LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered] people can and do have children, sexual orientation or gender identity has nothing to do with good parenting or good child care,” the booklet states.
“Individual circumstances lead to varied family structures and parenting arrangements. It is important to be aware of this. When talking to children, consider using ‘parents‘, ‘carers’ or ‘guardians’ rather than ‘mother’ or ‘father‘.
Along the same lines, the directive points out, use of the terms ‘husband’, ‘wife’ and ‘marriage’ is not acceptable since such terms exclude lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Instead, health care workers should use the terms ‘partners’ and ‘next of kin’. Since ‘next of kin’ is often understood to mean nearest blood relative, however, the booklet recommends that it may be preferable to use ‘partner, close friend or close relative’ to avoid confusion.
“This allows the patient to identify and choose who is important to them.”
Other recommendations include ensuring the health care environment is visually reassuring to LGBT people, with posters and magazines on LGBT issues on display.
“Posters with positive images of same-sex couples, alongside similar material depicting opposite-sex couples, should be displayed in all areas e.g. waiting areas, hospital wards.”
In order to better ensure the comfort and security of LGBT people in the health care environment, the NHS calls for sexual identity “monitoring forms” to be included in all registration procedures for both staff and patients. The booklet recommends five reply options to the question of sexual orientation, including ‘Lesbian‘, ‘Gay‘, ‘Bisexual‘, ‘Heterosexual‘, and ‘Other‘. Sections recording gender should be changed to have three reply options, ‘Male‘, ‘Female‘, or ‘Other, “where people can define their own gender.”
Among guidelines for implementing pro-LGBT policies in the health care system, the directive requires that management or team leader job descriptions include a mandatory commitment to combating any “discriminatory” language or attitudes among staff.
The booklet was funded by taxpayers through the NHS Education for Scotland, as part of the Equality and Diversity program.
That might be offensive to homosexuals as well, since with male homosexuals, there is no grown up woman in the house. Might also be offensive to cross-dressers or 'transgendered'.
I swear, human beings are the silliest things.
Double Hemlock Please!
If they want to arrest me, let them come. They will have one hell of fight from this REAL MAN. Or is the term REAL MAN now considered hate speech?
My God, what a country of wimps we are. What a world of wimps the west is.
I love hate speech.
I see allot of that out of our HR department. They operate with the same logic and efficiency of the federal government. I remember when HR, as you said, used to be known as personnel. It was normally a couple of friendly people who kept track of employee paperwork and handled job applications. Seems in the last 10 years the role has morphed into a monster.
Not until us heterosexuals are relegated to naught but baby factories for the "others" to raise.
New category of hate crimes is being defined.
What about those who define their own species differently? If someone thinks that he is a horse, who has right to contradict him?
Wonder if the nurses are going to start giving short arm inspections before addressing the new parents about their babies.
Of course, the "other person" could be some wild animal, and I'm not being PC enough
You need serious sensitivity therapy. First of all, you should not greet the young person as "little boy". Referring to his/her/it's stature as diminutive is demeaning. How do you know it is a boy? Did you peek inside her/his/it's pants?
Next you should not ask where is the significant other (so to speak) as you are very likely offending it/ her/his single parent or perhaps her/it/his polyamory caregivers.
We need to hunt you down so we can get you immediate help.
They are just eradicating Western families, to make space for the Muslims.
I hate to break it to the twinks but them kids they have gotten their hands on came from a mom and dad.
My best friend and I are planning a photography centric business. We will make a good living at it, however we must have 2 years of living saved in order to be successful. No, it's not Pr0n so we won't become instant millionaires, LMAO.
That is plain sick! Unfortunately he only went to jail for tax evasion.
Thanks for the uplifting comment! Ouch! LMAO!
>This PC/Homo crap is really beginning to tick me off.<
How old are you? I have been ticked off about it for 20 years now.
Evil and sad as it is, homosexual activity is nothing more then a sexual perversion.
And perverted people just looking for their next sex fix.
So now Normal people are the ones who cannot be free.
Sick..
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